Amazing Race-Unfinished Business-Bye Bye Goths

Here's what you missed-

A Swiss Alp rescue with Zev and Justin coming in last-

The making of a chocolate Travelocity Gnome mold-with the Globetrotters trotting into first place on the mat-

and the Goths critical mistake of not reading their clue right-taking a taxi instead of

walking to the pit stop-incurring a 30 minute penalty-

losing the game! and letting Zev and Justin step on the mat before them.

Bum way to get eliminated, but shame on you, having raced before. What did your mother always tell you, take a sweater in case it gets cold, pee before you leave the house and always, always read your clue thoroughly!

Celebrity Apprentice-NeNe Blow Up

Let's face it, you can't win an argument with NeNe. She's taller, bigger, talks louder and uses her body language to get all up in your face. According to NeNe, Star is bossy, manipulative and conniving. NeNe has a total melt down and goes off on Star in front of Trump and et al when they are gather to learn about their next challenge. NeNe apparently didn't take too well when Star hinted that she should be the project manager. So NeNe resentfully concedes to be the PM all the while berating Star for this and that while Star remains like stone, not stooping to her level by even acknowledging that those comments are about her. What, who me? Star knows completely what she is doing, she is cunning and conniving and she wants to be The Celebrity Apprentice. Well, she's gonna have to duct tape NeNe's mouth first. During the challenge, the girls pretend to kiss a make up, but there is subtle tension ready to explode, with just one wrong look or one wrong word. I truly thought the girls presentation was horrid while the guys really came through and they deserved to win.

LaToya makes another appearance to plead her case to the Donald for a second chance to come back and be on the men's team. The Donald knows a rating bonanza when he sees one and lets her come back to be on the men's team, but makes sure to state that this will be the first and last time he does this.

In the boardroom, its mashing over the same arguments again between NeNe and Star but when push came to shove, when the Donald asked each one of them who they would get rid of everyone said, Hope. So bye bye Hope, you just have no drama in you.

I hate to say it, but this season is proving to be very memorable, but then again, ask me in a few months who was on this season......

Survivor-Redemption Island-Double Elimination

Phillip is delighted with his sassy undercover specialist (?) self since he had a premonition that came to him in a dream. His great great grandfather told him where his shorts be at. Guess there's not much to do in the afterlife. It's under a rock he saidth to Phillip, go seek and ye shall find. And lo and behold, nary under the second rock, there he discovered the truth. His shorts. Well thank heaven for that, now Phillip can cover up those pink BVDs! At the Redemption challenge, Phillip is like a seven year old, pointing to his pants to Julie. Julie, who looks like she's spent one too many millions of years in the sun goes home to the jury but not before she says weepingly that she came on because her house is in foreclosure. Ok, I take that last line back. I felt bad. Rob is like aw shucks, Matt still lives another day, thanks to his God. Maybe there is something to all that God stuff?

The immunity challenge is the log roll and Grant wins easily and gets to eat his chocolate cake too. Back at camp, Rob is like maybe they should get rid of Andrea since she was sympathizing with Matt, which is like talk of treason against Zapatera. Before they leave the challenge, Jeff gives the tribe a mystery package to bring to tribal. Rob says maybe it's for a double elimination. Boy that guy really knows this game. At tribal things work according to plan, getting rid of furry hick boy and then you guessed it another elimination, the memorization game, which Rob smugly wins and they vote out Steve, which I'm glad they chose him, because why upset the boat, let Andrea survive another round at least if she goes next she'll have no one to blame. Should be a free for all at camp with only the Zapatera tribe left to eat each other.

It's Over-Brad and Emily Break Up

We knew that wasn't going to last. According to some sources, Emily did it via telephonic way to say she's had it. Well at least she didn't send a text message. Emily states she was getting tired of his old ways and that it didn't look like Brad would ever be that perfect fiancee. Come on, this is Hollywood for crimmy sakes. Brad's a loose cannon, a la ex-girl friend Laura Kaygay who told US Weekly in the Feb issue, he text her before filming the Bachelor to marry him. Really? Well, who knows, but for now, is three times a charm? I don't think so.

Amazing Race-Unfinished Business-How Far is it, Liechtenstein

A question that became the undoing of the cowboys. Not their shining moment, in fact just another misstep in their utterly dismal race. Not sure why all the other teams view them as a threat, they've missed planes, taken the wrong route, and come in at the bottom of the pack, so how are they a threat? Misguided teams need to see that Zev and Justin are the real threats here, don't let that veil of autism fool you. They are smart and strong, if not a little goofy in the process. Sure let's eat fondue, did they not get the hint when they opted for the schnitzel Austria, sure let's eat some more food! Puke.

Definitely did not like the Globetrotters U-turning the cowboys. Obviously the cowboys were in last place and then to add salt to the wound, lets make them do another challenge. Shame on you Globetrotters, now I hope you end up in last place. Seems like the only team left with any good will is perky Mallory and Gary. Hope they end up winning, even if her constant perkiness bugs me.

Survivor Redemption Island-

Again it's dissension over rice as Phillip scoops some of Zapatara's rice, they won't miss it because they are flushed with rice and living large with only three tribe members. When Ometepe goes to check their rice, it's covered with maggots from a leak in the bottom of the container. Phillip ask Steve if they could put their good rice in with their's to which Steve says no. Play nice! Immediately Phillip and Steve get in a heated argument with Steve ending up calling Phillip "crazy" to which Phillip takes as a racial slur. Yes, we all know Phillip is crazy and has won the second highest medal in the military. What is the second highest medal? I'll have to look that one up.

I loved tribal when Jeff was trying to sort out that argument and really made some sense from both sides. He's such a diplomat! It's all in the perspective. Jeff, will you marry me? Redemption Island challenge between Matt, David and Mike, David is odd man out and gets to be the first member of the jury.

Rob wins the immunity challenge and he and his tribe are considering taking Phillip out since he is getting on everyone's last nerve, especially now that Julie stole his pants and he has to walk around in his pink BVDs. Yikes. But at tribal, Ometepe comes to their senses, letting Phillip go would be the end of Ometepe, keep the diversion on Phillip I say and they send Julie packing. Not sure what their rational was for that, I would have sent Steve home. He seems like a big challenge threat. Hillbilly can't do much of anything, but Steve can pull out the challenges. Still rooting for Boston Rob. I like him!

Celebrity Apprentice-Omaha Steaks

The dwindling men's team is down to four and lord help them, Gary is project manager for the Omaha Steak challenge. John Rich can't decide if Gary is a saboteur because no one is that crazy for real. He must be making up things just to sabotage the men's team. Nope, Gary is really that crazy. He likes to say that he escape death when he had that motorcycle accident in the 80's where he describes himself as floating above his body for hours. Well, I say he didn't come out of that accident unscathed, something happened with his brain, seriously. I needn't say anymore about this episode, except that Gary was fired for being "unfocused" and just plain crazy. No more drama that's for sure.

Amazing Race-Freudian Schintzel and Chim Chimney

It's off to Austria for Schnitzel and Freudian therapy couches. I love Austria, it's so civilized and the beer is fantastic. Teams have to chose to either eat Schnitzel or move couches. Tempting to eat schnitzel but who knew it would be a giant plate not even a man can finish. Again the cowboys chose the wrong flight and get in 30 minutes behind the other teams-dumb! Kent and Vxysin need the therapy couch because they are constantly fighting in the first half of the leg. Turns out their fighting was the only interesting thing on this leg of the race. The challenges were pretty mild, eating Schnitzel or moving couches and chimney sweeping, how easy was that? The pit stop is the lovely Villa Von Trapp which we didn't get to see when we were in Salzburg. We chose to go to the ice caves instead, which I do have to say were amazing nonetheless, but next time it's the Trapp house I want to see. Austria snowy and beautiful.

Winners of this leg won two Ford Focus cars, which Zev and Justin manage to win. Nice going!

Old Salzburg, Austria

Survivor Redemption Island-Double Elimination

Where would this season be without Boston Rob and Phillip? Boring that's what. Rob has decided that no one on his tribe is to be alone with the other tribe. Everyone is to buddy up, which is probably a stroke of genius, so no one can be swayed over to the other side. I know Rob wants to keep hold of his cult leader status by separating the tribal sleeping areas and eating times, but not to let his clan have the fish? Come on, nothing like starving your tribe into dissension. What's a little communal breaking of bread with the enemy? Grant goes over to the other tribe like a starving dog taking a small bite of the forbidden fish.

Phillip has become the tribe spokesperson, watch dog and all around Kung Fu master of the silly speak. You just have to giggle what comes out of his mouth. You almost hold your breath that he doesn't say anything that will sabotoge his tribe, he has a habit of revealing too much and he calls himself a secret agent? I really do hope he makes it with Rob to the end. Wouldn't that be something?

Matt gets sent back to Redemption Island for a second time, and as he says, get voted out once, shame on them, get voted out twice, shame on me. Guess it's God's will. Challenge one, Phillip comes sporting a feather headdress saying that it will bring strength and luck to the Ometepe tribe and that it did, with Grant winning the challenge and sending Mike to Redemption Island, strategy there would be that he would be able to oust Matt from his semi-permanent home. Next challenge Ashley wins the immunity, you knew women were better at that challenge sending David, the brains of the Zapatera to join Mike and Matt at Redemption Island. Should be interesting next week at Redemption as the population doubles.

Celebrity Apprentice-Golden Girls

This episode Gary Busey insults the women execs of Australian Gold Suntan products when they are talking about how the products make people feel fun and good and then Gary Busey says makes him feel sexual. wtf? Gary puts his foot in it again by telling the execs when they come to see the glass box displaying their products, that Gary loves the products so much that they can use him as a pitchman for cheap. I think that did in the guys for the Australian Gold and the women walk away (barely) with the win. Mark McGrath has to open his Joan of Arc mouth by saying to Trump that if they lose, then he would be the one to take the blame, never mind that Gary is spouting off handed comments and talking gibberish. Where would this season be without Gary Busey? John Rich hit it on the head in the board room by saying that in the board room Gary is all focus but outside the board room his focus is nil. The Donald ask Mark to bring in two others back into the board room but Mark only chooses to bring back Gary since he was put on the hot seat from his fellow teammates, you know those inappropriate comments. Mark tries to undo the damage with is martyred comments, but of course the Donald grabs onto what Mark says and of course has to fire him leaving Gary to amuse us for another episode. Where would we be without his comments like "Did you see Big Wednesday?" "That's what my girlfriend calls my apparatus". More like little Thursday in my book, eh?

And now from the Celebrity Apprentice game: Who said "Gary Busey is like a one legged cat trying to bury a turd on a frozen pond, just spinning."

Celebrity Apprentice-Meatloaf Meltdown

Meatloaf has a break with reality. He thinks Busey who calmly asks him (Meatloaf) in Michael's if he is buying stuff for him (Busey) to use. Odd question, yes, why would I be buying your stuff? But ok, that's Gary for ya. Once back at the studio, where everyone has to create some art to sell, Meatloaf can't find his bag of paints. Basketball yes, paints no. He toddles over to Busey's table where Busey has his stuff all nicely arranged and starts screaming at Busey that he stole his stuff. Screaming every MF word this and MF word that and MF you come near me and I'll MF you up. It was like pre school for adults. He stole my paints! I expected all of them to start throwing paint at each other. Gary during all of this remains unnaturally calm. Weird, since he's the one that is so erratic and unpredictable. Richard Hatch is smirking and John Rich is trying to get them to focus only not on each other. Later Meatloaf is apologizing to Busey and Busey remains like David Carradine in Kung Fu, grasshopper it is ok because to forgive is to F forgive, O others, R rage, G given, I in, V vulnerable, E exceptions. Or something like that. The man speaketh in riddles I tell ya.

Both sides open their gallery, the girls had much better art to sell, with LaToya donating a tee shirt from Michael Jackson and designing a baseball cap with his signature sparkle glove. This challenge was about raising as much money for the celebrity art work. Everyone is pulling out their roledex, except for Richard Hatch, as he tells the Donald, he spent 4 years in prison, guess he doesn't have a lot of friends with money, only with criminal records.

John Rich calls in his posse of friends, in the pack a little guy named 2 foot Fred, ok, cute, cute. John was like, his posse is going to drop at least 1/2 mil. Must be nice to have friends with money. The girls on the other hand look like they are off to a slow start. In the boardroom, the Donald's states that more money was raised in this one episode than during any entire season, ever, so that has to be a lot of money. I was sure the guys were going to win with John Rich selling his painted guitar and boots. The guys come up with 600+ thousands which is an enormous sum. So then, George says the girls total was 986,000! Holy Cow! I was glad the women finally won one. Then Donald says to the women, it's your call, but maybe the guys shouldn't get eliminated because they did great as well. Well, that's a nice howyado. Marlee was taken aback, but pause only for 30 seconds to confer with her team to say, they worked hard for this and yes the guys lost and yes one of them needs to go home! Good for you! And with that Richard Hatch was the only choice for the guys since he raised the least amount of money. Richard you're fired!

Survivor-Redemption Island

If anyone can take Matt off Redemption Island it would be Stephanie. But first she has to list her food cravings which is probably driving Matt crazy, since the only thing he can converse in is God speak (not that that's a bad thing!). The challenge is the memory pictures which I thought Stephanie would ace since she's pretty smart, but alas that was not the case (she must be still thinking about that peanut butter sandwich) and Matt comes up a winner again. Next episode it looks like he might be headed back to tribe and everyone else better watch out, because it really does look like he has God on his side.

Phillip is not trusting Rob since he withheld the clue and because of that Phillip wants to CRUSH him. No problem for Rob, because he knows the more Phillip talks the more he'll get himself in trouble. Meanwhile, Sarita and David are going at it because David is lobbying for strong players not loyal players which in the end proved to be his winning argument (he's a lawyer you know) as they send Sarita to Redemption Island and no match for Matt.

I was cracking up with that whole cripsy rice argument when the girls wanted to keep some for Rob and Phillip hearing that tries to get some just to be annoying. Funny stuff. I'm kinda hoping Phillip wins just to annoy us all. But then again, I do have a soft spot for Rob!

Celebrity Apprentice-ACN Video Phone

Hey wait a minute, am I watching a re-run? I'm confused? Didn't they already do this? This ACN thing? And what they are still in business? The ACN video phone. Maybe the execs wants some more free publicity. I'll have to re-read my post on that previous season, but wasn't that when Joan Rivers was on it and won? Don't remember anything about that ACN episode so it must have been a sleeper. This time around, ACN execs say they want an ad that appeals to the emotion and heart, so the girls go after a 30 second spot featuring Marlee Matlin signing to her daughter over the video phone. The guys on the other hand driven by Lil Jon wants to add shock value with Jose introduced to the parents of his gay lover over the video phone. So much for emotion and heart. Typical guy thing. The dad is played by the ever so eccentric Gary Busey, who is totally off his rocker, parading around in a bathrobe with nothing underneath, hoping that his pecker would fall out. I so thought it was going to be way too crass for the conservative ACN execs, but everyone in their audience loved it, especially when the execs heard the word "viral". Nene got all emotional in the board room. Everyone pretty much said Dionne was the weakest player so when Trump asked her who should go home, she said well I guess I should, to which Trump said, You're Fired.

Celebrity Apprentice-ACN Launch-Previous Season's ACN

This episode's task is a launching party for ACN's new videophone. Someone at my work sells those, I'm just wondering do you have to have ACN as the phone carrier? I would love a videophone but I'd always have to wear lipstick, never know when you would get a call!

Again Joan is gone away for some event leaving Claudia (the model from Deal or No Deal-she's a celebrity?) as PM with Brian McKnight as PM for the guys. At least this challenge doesn't involve generating money but instead the teams will have to use their creative ideas for the launch. Clint Black and Dennis Rodman get into a heated verbal, over what I'm not sure. Clint last week was sporting the little man syndrome (I know someone at work with that!) which rubbed Dennis the wrong way. Dennis gets all in Clint's face and it was ugly. Dennis has some serious issues. Hey Dr. Phil, ya busy? After the spat, Dennis removes himself from the group, probably to find comfort in booze and broads or dudes (whatever he's into). The ACN execs want an emotional appeal for the promotion. Jesse James suggest right off that he has a contact out at West Point and they can shoot a video there, no matter that it's a two hour ride there. The girls get sidetrack with Claudia and Melissa's tongue wagging war. Melissa tries to volunteer ideas since she does this kind of thing, um like yeah, but Claudia sees it like she's being obnoxious and bi!chy. Claudia's vampire nails come out even further bashing Melissa's semi frozen face and says Melissa scares her because she doesn't know if she's happy or upset. Careful Claudia, I'm seeing plastic surgery in your future, you are a model aren't you?

I'm wondering which one on Athena decided on that whole stage actor vignette thing because I knew having actors interspersed with video would be corny.

Clint looks like a wet puppy with nothing to do on KOTU as Brian prepares to be the center of attention by performing a song. So that's two guys on KOTU with nothing to do, Clint and Dennis who finally shows up but Brian won't give him a single task. Dennis and Clint both act like spoiled brats. Maybe they should scoop up Melissa and all three could be a team.

Joan makes it back on time, private jet and all at 4:00 am. Got to give that old lady props for having so much energy to do that and still look fresh the next day to give her stand up routine. I know, who can tell when she's tired after all that plastic surgery. The best line in Joan's stand up for the videophone, was now all she had to do was to call her gyno. Funny stuff. Joan's still got it!

The guys presentation was really good. They didn't have all that corny crap that the girls did and going second really worked in their favor.

In the end, the Donald said by a landslide, the group liked the guys show better. Everyone love Brian McKnight. I wasn't unhappy that the ladies lost, eventually the weaker ones will have to exit and this week it was Claudia. She tried to throw Melissa under the bus for her big mouth, I'm the greatest thing since foil act, but the rest of the team said Melissa saved their weak presentation by taking charge of the production. Mama Joan came out swinging at Claudia. Don't mess with mother and her cub. In the end, Donald Trump could see that Claudia was clouded by her dislike of Melissa and was sent to pack her bags and take her model self back to Deal or No Deal to bring out another money suitcase.-Single D

Amazing Race-Tea and Sympathy

Teams get their next clue and no you are not leaving China just yet. First you drink tea. Little do they know they will have to remember what it taste like. From there they get their next clue and it's off the the land of the many, India. The Detour takes them to a tea house where they will have find the same tea they drank in China. Do we remember what it taste like? A tea of mangoes and papaya. Actually sounds delicious. The table looks like they have a thousand tea cups on it. Ron is the first to find it, he had a leg up on everyone since they asked in Chinese what kind it was. Everyone finds the tea after drinking cup after cup except for Luke. He starts bawling. I'm like why? No sympathy here. Come on it's just tea! Smell the damn cups! And why are you moving so slowly? If you can't find the right tea cup, then I would have been taking tea cup after tea cup to the guy in rapid fire, although I would probably would have had the need to use the bathroom first. Luke is down on his knees saying in his muted way, "it's too hard", he even had the Indian servers sympathizing with him. When he finally found it after doing the smartest thing all season, was to take a tray of cups with him, he finally found it, the Indian servers practically carried him off the field or in this case around the room. You would have thought when they finally catch up to the Globetrotters in the paint the pink Ganesha roadblock they might of have a chance in staying in the game. But that was not the case, and mother and Luke are eliminated.

I have to say, the people of India are so friendly and nice. Maybe I might have to put this on my bucket list somewhere towards the bottom.